T.J. House

House opened last season as the Indians' fifth starter after winning the job in spring training, but he had four ugly starts to open the season before landing on the DL with a shoulder injury. He was ...

House (shoulder) has been added to the major league disabled list after filing a grievance indicating he was injured during his time with the big league club, Paul Hoynes of the Northeast Media Group reports.

House quietly put together a big second half making him an interesting flier for 2015. He wasn’t consistently in the rotation, but he did put together a 2.53 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, and 4.6 K/BB ratio in 10 starts thanks to an elite slider and vast improvements to his changeup which was instrumental in his ability to finally tame righties with some regularity. The next step is improving his fastball command against right-handers as they tattooed the pitch all around the yard with a .958 OPS. He works 90-92 mph with it and can touch 94-95 at times, but it found way too many barrels last year as 17 of the 57 hits that righties had went for extra bases. The addition of Gavin Floyd in free agency puts House in a competition for a spot in the rotation this spring. For now, stick to rostering him deeper leagues while shallow mixed leaguers can stream him early on as we wait to see how much of 2014 was real.

2013

House continues to make steady improvement as he moves up the minor league ranks, earning a promotion to Double-A Akron after starting the season at High-A Carolina. His numbers at Double-A will certainly need to improve and his stuff may not play well at higher levels. The minors are littered with guys like House so until he has more success at Akron and above, there is not much reason to get excited yet.